So I picked up the original Batman Hush series in trade paperback. The thirteen-year-old has been looking through it, due primarily to the presence of Catwoman, and why not?
Anyway, there's a scene early on where Catwoman is doing some Bad Things not of her own volition but because she's under the control of Poison Ivy. In Ivy's words, "You know you can't resist me. No man--or woman can."
So I'm doing something or other while the kid is reading, and I hear "I didn't know Catwoman was gay." Not as in she cares, but as in she's only seen Catwoman showing a romantic interest in Batman, who is, as they say, all man.
She was thinking, you see, of that scene in Countdown where Ivy has captured Trickster and Piper and is using her abilities to get information out of them. It works on Trickster, who is straight. It doesn't work on Piper, who is gay. The implication, at least, is that if a person wouldn't be attracted to Ivy under other circumstances, her powers of persuasion are not effective on them.
So this means what? That Catwoman is bi? (Not according to "no man--or woman.") Or that what we saw in Countdown was an inaccurate portrayal of this aspect of Ivy's powers?
(I'm guessing the latter.)
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This sounds as though the writer is making up something convenient to the plot, that actually flies in the face of convention. But what can you do?
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